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Walking through the streets of Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles in late June, Advanced Placement United States History teacher Alexander Henton pulled out his phone. He was snapping as many pictures of the dozens of different landmarks as he could. Specifically, the giant mural of Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese baseball player, in Little Tokyo and the burial sites at Manzanar, a concentration camp for Japanese-Americans. It’s the first day of the teacher workshop, Little Tokyo: How History Shapes a Community Across Generations, which Henton had been accepted to in early April. Henton applied for the Japanese-American-centered workshop because he knew little about it. “I felt like it was an underrepresented topic in what I do as a history teacher,” Henton said. “I knew my students didn’t know very much about it. We typically have done one little activity about it, and I think this story needs more.” To read more, click the link in bio. #storybyreesedunham #pagedesignbybridgetdean #s...

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